Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (205 mails)

["Alan Clark" <aclark@xxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 11/18/2011 at 02:20 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On 11/18/2011 08:50 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
> > Hi
> > I use a lot the dropbox application in order to share various files
> > between me desktop and notebook and in order to have instant access to
> > my shared data from other systems or in order to share some of my data
> > to other users.
> > I was very happy when I read that openSUSE 12.1 will be supporting
> > OwnCloud, although I never tested so far. I read the
> > http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:OwnCloud also I went to the OwnCloud page
> > and saw the demo and I really liked it but I did not understand a few
> > things.
> >
> > 1) Does OwnCloud gives you a free storage like Dropbox and how many
> > MB/GB is that?
>
> ownCloud means it's your own cloud, so you need to provide the storage 
> space yourself. And that means you "own" it completely and thus control it.

I've had ownCloud running for a couple weeks.  I have more to figure out, but 
would suggest that you also grab wdfs and related tools.

Alan Clark

> > 2) Do I have to firstly install OwnCloud or by installing Mirall I will be 
> ok?
> > 3) Is Mirall on any of the Community repos or is it available only by
> > one click install? I have the 'basic' repos on my desktop and I could
> > not find it there.
>
> Andreas


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